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[guitarpicks]

Sooooooo. Fair ladies, good sirs, ghoulies, ghosties, dead and undead alike. Fellow whatever we think we are? [ eddie get to the point here? ] How many of you play instruments and would want to jam?

I'm in a band back home and missing shred sessions. I just found my guitar back -- [ a pause and then he might sound like he's devastated and talking about a lost love. ] Not my sweetheart but my acoustic.

[ and if you're thinking he's not gonna give you whiplash and then sound eager, excited as fuck at the drop of a hat then you're wrong. ] Anyway, I'm really jonesing to play. Anyone in?

If you're into metal or rock even better but all musicians welcome. The place I'm staying at isn't big but there's abandoned buildings near by and the acoustics are killer. [ and because there's some manners under there? ] And if you're in, I'm Eddie.

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[venatoris]

Can't do much playing without a guitar, but I happen to have a set of vocal chords that aren't half bad.

Dean Winchester, by the way.

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[craters]

May I ask a question? What's a guitar?

（ as far as stringed instruments go, not one she's familiar with, and the universal translation doesn't really help her out here. ）

[dreamlords]

It's been some time since I've heard live music.

[ he could probably play something if he wanted to but he thinks he prefers listening especially to genres he hasn't heard before. ]

Are you going to play for an audience?

un: traveler

[unalign]

Does playing a lyre or a zither count?

[ just please don't give her a wind instrument unless we want more creatures dying ]

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[rumination]

[ what do those words even mean? jam? guitar? jonesing to play? why is he calling an instrument his sweetheart? does that mean something else?

is there even a question among all of that? ]

Speak properly if you intend to ask a question.

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[immortalrose]

[It takes him a moment to decipher what's being said here. He's not very "hip" to such lingo, after all. But after careful deucing, he finally is able to understand this message. It just took him a few tries.]

Greetings Eddie. I would be hard-pressed to find a piano here but I'm a classically trained pianist.

[guitarpicks]

Hey Dean.

What's your genre of choice?

[guitarpicks]

It's..... a five stringed instrument with a long neck, pear shaped body. [ he's also drawing this out in the air as he explains except that's not helpful over audio chat, now is it? ] Does it sound familiar?

[guitarpicks]

Yeah! It'd be sick to have an audience, dude. [ and then he can preen a little on a stage if they find one. ] How long's it been?

[guitarpicks]

what's a zither? [ a lyre would be sick but he doesn't know that other one. ]

[guitarpicks]

.... I did speak properly?

[guitarpicks]

[ sadly, this guy hasn't realized not everyone is from the future and wouldn't understand him. ] maybe we can find something smaller?

there's got to be something that would work.

[unalign]

A zither is a stringed instrument with the strings placed against a box or a flat surface and you pluck or strum the strings to make music.

When you said rock, did you mean rock 'n' roll?

[rumination]

You said words that mean nothing.

[immortalrose]

Something smaller? Like a miniature piano?

[Does such a thing exist? He's severely out of the loop after two-hundred or so years. However, he's really curious to know how far human ingenuity has come since his heydays.]

If so, then perhaps a local artisan here in Stygia could make one? Just a thought, of course.

[guitarpicks]

oh shit! like a guqin? some one here plays a guqin and said it was a zither?

yeah! rock n roll. but i'll play anything.

[guitarpicks]

[ oh. this guy is probably not from earth, then, and definitely not the after the 80s. ]

they make plenty of sense if you're from where i'm from.

but all it means is i have my guitar back and i'm looking for people to play music with me.

[guitarpicks]

maybe like a keyboard... they're smaller than grand pianos if that's what you're used to.

easier to make too.

[immortalrose]

[Well, fancy that. There ARE miniature pianos! How come Cass never told him about that?]

If this "keyboard" is anything similar to a parlor grand or consolette piano, then that's exactly what we need.

With a little bit of skill, an musician can make anything sound decent.

[rumination]

People talk like that where you're from?

[ he's glad he doesn't live there. that makes no sense! ]

You're the one with the guitar. From the bardic event.

[unalign]

I ... guess? I'm not sure what a guqin is.

A friend of mine plays rock n roll. It's very passionate and spirited, from what I've listened to.

[dreamlords]

Awhile. I was indisposed and unable to listen to music and then I was busy.

[ being imprisoned and then trying to rebuild his realm. the closest he'd gotten to fun was the cereal convention which wasn't all that fun. ]

I did enjoy it, though. It's relaxing to hear something in person rather than to listen to it through a recording device.

[venatoris]

Classic rock, mostly. Could probably handle some more modern stuff, depending on the range.

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[prozaic]

Ah... rock music. Loud and full of emotions... A unique form of art. [he's not saying it in a derogatory way.]

Unfortunately, not my area of expertise, no matter my interest in it. I've only practised on more classical instruments.

[craters]

Oh, sort of like a biwa.

（ is he a storyteller? is it rude to ask... ）

Just be mindful, if it's not... um, reinforced, it's going to degrade over time.